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The Mpumalanga education department said it was disturbed after robbers vandalised Tsakane Special School in Acornhoek over the weekend and stole equipment meant for disabled pupils. “The perpetrator took almost every resource meant to teach learners with severe intellectual disability‚ as well as admin equipment‚” said department spokesperson Jasper Zwane‚ adding that the security guard […]

A heavily pregnant Emalahleni woman survived being shot in an attempted hijacking and gave birth just a short while later – after somehow managing to get her injured husband back into their vehicle to escape their attackers. The woman is still in a critical condition. Mpumalanga police spokesman Colonel Mtsholi Bhembe said on Monday that […]

MP who slapped policeman was ‘acting in self-defence’ The EFF claims there were plans to assassinate their leader‚ Julius Malema‚ during the state of the nation address (Sona) in parliament on Thursday night. And its MP‚ Marshall Dlamini‚ was acting in self-defence when he slapped a policeman‚ says the party. In a statement on Friday‚ […]

Threats that the state of the nation address would be disrupted turned out to be empty‚ as President Cyril Ramaphosa charmed the opposition immediately after taking the podium on Thursday. Ramaphosa had the house in stitches when he told of a chance meeting he had with EFF leader Julius Malema on Wednesday‚ where he claimed […]

As the country geared up for the state of the nation address (Sona) to be delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday evening‚ Black First Land First (BLF) made a rather unprecedented demand. “We want Cyril Ramaphosa [at Sona] to apologise to the Major 1 for the harassment that has gone on here. It is […]

The death toll at the Gloria coal mine‚ near Middelburg in Mpumalanga‚ which was rocked by an underground gas explosion‚ has risen to five. Police spokesperson Brig Leonard Hlathi said four more bodies were recovered in the early hours of Thursday morning. Hlathi said two people were brought to the surface during rescue operations on […]

Finance minister Tito Mboweni has appointed a seven-member panel to interview and recommend to President Cyril Ramaphosa a shortlist of candidates for the position of commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS). The panel will be chaired by Trevor Manuel‚ who served as finance minister from 1996 to 2009. Other members of the panel […]